Cowboy Ronnie

I was an astronaut. No, I mean a pop star. The truth of the matter is, I dated Julia Roberts but had to break things off because she was too needy. I once swam the Atlantic. Underwater. Now, I live in an island in the South China Sea. My only neighbours are Michael Winner, and a giant, robot Kong.

An interesting nugget off wiki in honour of Eli W's birthday: "Wallach is central to one of the most infamous show business legends. In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the movie From Here to Eternity. He was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began. Sinatra went on to win an Oscar for the performance and revived his career. Legend has it that Sinatra used pressure from his reputed underworld connections to get the part. That story inspired a similar incident depicted in the classic 1972 film The Godfather." Wallach went on to appear in Godfather Part III.

Here's the latest on the hollow tube of nothingness Large Hardon Collider. £14 million more down the drain I like the pic at the top - have they been fixing that helium leak with tin foil?

Can we peek under the door? You can try, but Strata the Psychedelic Snake is on the other side. Given that most snakes, especially psychedelic ones, are light sensitive, see if the snake moves when you flip a switch. If he doesn't, then it's not that switch.

Can we peek under the door?

Thanks for asking, Misey. No, Ruby Muhammad will likely never darken any future DL's. That was a bad pick.

Call me crazy, Call me lazy, But this poor guy's future looks hazy. I went for Clive Dunne. Kidding. Swayze.

I get your point O3. But Miser is right. Ideas and Possibilities has too many random posts, "so and so went to hospital", therefore he or she gets suggested. This thread seemed to be more about working towards the actual 2009 DL, with suggestions by regular posters who get what the site is about. Anyway, two good nominees that I'm sure the Committee will discuss in great detail over the fifth pint.

OK, some interesting suggestions so far. Going forward, in this thread can people please put a supporting reason why someone should be considered a DL candidate for 2009. A link to a relatively recent news article, a picture showing the person in frail health, an anonymous insight from a family member that so-and-so "has gone home to die", etc. If there's been tons of news recently and the person has already been discussed on the DL, then presume he or she will already be on the Committee's radar, e.g. Swayze and Seve. It's that extra bit of specialist knowledge that someone's secretly just weeks or months from death that would be really handy. The younger and more famous the better.

Folk music legend Odetta dies at age 77. The Odetta File First Miriam Makeba, now Odetta. Could Aretha Franklin be next?

I had a problem with BT wireless broadband, and now have a big cable connecting the white BT "home hub" to the back of my laptop. So it's not exactly wireless, and I usually have to turn the computer, the hub, or both off and on at least once a week to re-set, but it does work most of the time. If they can put a man on the moon, why can't...... Oh, wait, they didn't.

Poor Steve Ballesteros is back in hospital Still not out of the rough Looking ever more likely to be on the DL for 2009.

Looks like there really will be time added, at the end of the year Seconds out

It's been less a sulk and more mental health problems there, hasn't it? Nothing about that on wiki or on this website about her. http://www.agnetha.net/AGNETHA.html -------------------------- Rest of Abba: "Agnetha, they're offering us a billion dollars to reunite. Do you know how many kroner that is?" Aggie: "My looks have faded, men won't look at my bum anymore". Rest of Abba: "In 2008, our music is almost as relevant, and certainly more respected, than it was back when we recorded it". Aggie: "That bitch Frida sold more solo records than me. She hates me. She's always hated me. She's jealous." Rest of Abba: "They just made a movie based on the wildly successful stage show, named for one of our songs. It was crap but millions of people went to see it. They even sing along, right there in the cinema. To recorded music. Every concert we give will be the musical event of the year in wherever we play." Aggie: "I vont to be alone."

12 items or less checkouts. Fewer fewer fewer fewer fewer fewer And people who sneer at you for taking a trolley through them. I do have 11 items actually, the trolley is for the baby I was once in a 10 items or less fewer supermarket queue, and the woman in front of me had about 15 items. When I pointed out the sign, she advised me, "Oh, some of these are for me, the rest are for my friend" (who of course wasn't even in the store). She then proceeded to make separate payments for her two purchases, one with (presumably her friend's) cash, and one with her own credit card. Unbelievably, had I murdered her on the spot I'd have been the villain of the piece.

dead So the Sydney Opera House was finished in 1973, has been an iconic piece of architecure for essentially all of its 35 years, and the miserable git stayed in such a strop he never went and saw it in person? He can claim his rightful place in the list of longest running Scandinavian sulks, along with: Greta Garbo Bjorn Borg Ingmar Bergman The blonde one out of Abba

I thought he was one of the spammers HCW recently banned

i.e. utter balls If only Shilts had shown the same level of commitment

She shuffled off this metal coil.....

Apparently the fairy tale is over for Amy and Blake: Love is a Losing Game which arguably increases her chances of dying in 2009 by a few percentage points.

"JNDavid" shows up on quite a few websites today, posing as a 40 year old from Ireland. More likely it's some evil bit of Chinese botware, randomly trawling the web, seeing what it can stick to, like a leech. But it must have been created by a human at some stage, unless James Cameron was right and SkyNet's starting to take over.

HCW, can you please ban JNDavid. I've deleted his spam and tried to make his future posts subject to mod approval. Actually, if you could arrange for his arms to be chopped off and put through a woodchipper so he can't use a computer ever again, that would be nice. Cheers, CR

The Royal Family - keeping nepotism alive for 1,000 years. What if Wills decided, like FW DeKlerk, that enough was enough, and just ended it? He and Harry could then helicopter to, and tumble out of, as many nightclubs as they liked, and no one would care. Would anyone (under the age of 50. Besides Windsor) miss the Royal Family? And spare us the "they're good for tourism" argument. The Tower and Windsor Castle would still be there.

Who doesn't love a bit of chirpy Mozza to bring gloom and doom to one's day? I'm quite partial to Every Day is Like Sunday "Trudging slowly over wet sand Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen This is the coastal town That they forgot to close down Armageddon - come armageddon! Come, armageddon! come!" Reminds me of the time I spent an hour in Morecambe. If there is a more depressing place in these fair Isles I hope never to visit it.